Tom, The best that you can do for making specific software (firmware) functions of your own making is to create the entire K2 control firmware on your own and burn it into the appropriate chips.
Elecraft keeps the firmware proprietary, and there are a number of valid reasons behind that - an edge on the competition is one good reason, the hardware would be easy for a competitor to duplicate. Another of the reasons is control - the firmware must be handle the hardware in a manner consistent with the K2 specifications - if anyone and everyone could monkey around with those control mechanisms, Elecraft probably could not offer any kind of warranty because the basic control mechanism would not necessarily be present. Another of the proprietary items is the single wire serial control between devices - the AUXBUS. Its signalling protocol is not publically available, so once you begin to create your own firmware, you must create it for all options of interest to allow the options to talk to the microprocessor. Not a trivial task. 73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > The K2 is a very nice design, using modular and flexible hardware > (relays for > everything, under microprocessor control). Has anyone done anything to > radically change the control software in their K2? > > Can we get access to the software that runs the controller and > menues, so if we > wanted different menu/switch functionality, it could be changed? > Seems like it > would not be that hard to really personalize this rig - something > you could > never do with anything else I have seen on the market. > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 5:52 PM _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
